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Re: [Scheme-reports] ANN: first draft of R7RS small language available



On Fri 29 Apr 2011 15:33, Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@x> writes:

> Andy Wingo wrote:
>> I don't know.  Like most of you, I've been programming scheme for a
>> while, but the implications of lexical scope on keywords and modules
>> have not even crossed my mind until an R6RS user reported a bug in our
>> R6RS implementation, to this effect.
>
> Folks, why do we at all match keywords (e.g. "else") lexically instead
> of textually?

What do you mean by "lexically" and by "textually" here?

Andy
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